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Wait if the POD is in 1945, how does Iceland retain the monarchial link with Denmark given that they held a referendum in May 1944 on abolishing the union and establishing a republic and actually did so by mid June 1944?

Well Kagame's Rwanda has been moving from the teaching of French to the teaching of English for schools since at least 2009: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/jan/16/rwanda-english-genocide Since Kagame and the other rebels had fled to Uganda during the Rwandan revolution (civil war)...

Perhaps! Depends on what happens in those countries.

He might well try to implement that in Tanganyika and the result on the provincial level (and the backlash and setbacks including droughts, collapsing commodity exports, the oil crises and the war with Uganda) might mean that even if he assumes the federal presidency in say 1978 it wouldn't be...

Well that all depends doesn't it? If Nyerere doesn't try to oust Kenyatta in internal party politics before Kenyatta's death in 1978 (and given Nyerere was one of the few African leaders who voluntarily demitted office in the 1980s in OTL and had offered to delay Tanganyikan independence to...

Excellent TL and subscribed! Wouldn't the Tuvaluans be called "Ellice Islanders" at the time rather than Tuvaluans? Also I would imagine that any Judicial Procedure Act of 1970 would only render the debate dead if it was that an appeal had not been lodged by the time the act became effective...

Not sure. The USA and USSR would likely try to woo it but Kenyatta is unlikely to be very active in the foreign policy field and likely stick to his OTL stance of being non-aligned but still pro-Commonwealth/pro-British. When Nyerere takes over he might lean more towards the USSR and China but...

well out of the four East African countries/territories (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Zanzibar) at the time, Uganda was probably the least likely to join due to its own internal issues between the central government and the traditional native kingdoms, especially Buganda which was pressing to be...

Excellent TL by the way

one final passage east? I think you meant west right?

Wasn't there an attempt to form a Scandinavian defence union in OTL after the war that foundered because the Norwegians and Danes wanted to have a US security guarantee or at the very least have an Anglo-French security guarantee for the said defence union? In the end the Norwegians and Danes...

Well for that I would say get the advice of any Polish members on the board who would have better access to resoures about the political environment at the time, but I would strongly suspect that any Polish government allowing any German military unit to partake in exercises in Poland will be in...

No more difficult than transferring troops to neighbouring East Prussia. In fact troops would like take up stations in Lithuania coming from East Prussia. Re: Slovakia, it was actually very useful. As a staging point for the German invasion of Poland. Prior to 1938/1939 Polish defence plans for...

Granted for the Axis powers Lithuania itself wouldn't provide much in terms of manpower but like Axis Slovakia (the Slovak Republic), which had around 2.6 million people, it would provide a strategic location if pushing towards Latvia, Estonia and Leningrad or just providing yet more territory...

Well most of that could be achieved though without having German troops participate in war games in Poland (besides which it would be quite likely that many in the Polish military would have massive misgivings about a German corp being able to drive through Poland, scope out the terrain and...

Bingo. And I'm sure pretty much everyone with leadership ambitions in Poland and most persons in government circles in Poland at the time knew that/realized that too. Much as how they knew that once there were Soviet troops in Poland there would be no effective way to make them leave either...

Fair enough, but to be honest the Lwow wargames seems radically different than what should have been plausible given the POD is in late 1938. As far I can recall, you still have Beck in charge of Poland and in OTL he strove to avoid Poland becoming a satellite state of Germany throughout 1938...

I'm still trying to figure out how Hitler intends to build a Greater German empire in the Soviet Union without first extinguishing Poland. Even if Poland returned some of the lands that used to belong to Germany before 1918 (something which also seems very, very unlikely), it would pretty much...

Not really. The map simply doesn't address anything east of Danzig basically and only shows the administrative divisions of 1944 and before for that region

A 1944 map of the proposed Lander for Germany made by the OSS (precursor to the CIA) from the Truman Library: https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/maps/m649-map-major-administrative-divisions-greater-germany Clipped version showing only the proposed lander (the original included administrative...